Groupings of tunes?

blfeguitar · April 22

Hello everyone

In one of Duved's DC music school lessons, he talked about "groupings of tunes," meaning there are countless individuals tunes, but there are only around 20 totally different types of chord progressions (with some variations of course). Is there a resource that lays these different chord progressions? Or suggestions for quickly figuring this out on one's own?

paulmcevoy75 · April 23

If you look up "Bruce Foreman 10 Tunes" or the podcast it came from, that would be a good start. +Blues and rhythm changes.

This is a word doc I put together. A lot of it is from Christiaan Van Hemert, plus the Bruce Foreman and some other stuff.

Don't get intimidated though. You learn one at a time.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1SguoCyGuI5Xlw24tECHLejooO-X4TX0C3S2t_ByJUIo/edit?usp=drivesdk

blfeguitar · April 26

Thanks @paulmcevoy75 ! I will get to work!

paulmcevoy75 · April 26

https://www.djangobooks.com/forum/discussion/comment/121137#Comment_121137

Just going to say, one thing about learning tunes, you can only learn one at a time, and they take as long as they take.

I guess meaning, you take a look at a huge list of tunes and you're like "I gotta learn all of them", but no. You learn one tune, one melody, the chord changes. That takes how long it takes. You play it for fun, over and over. It's "your tune" for a while. Then you learn another one, but you do go back to the first one often. Then a third one, and on and on.

I used to sort of think I needed to learn all the tunes, all at once. And that was absolute madness. You need to give everything your learning the proper amount of time, and if it takes you 15 years to learn all those tunes, that's totally fine. Way better than trying to rush it.

blfeguitar · April 28

Great advice, thanks!

TheGarethJones · April 29

https://www.djangobooks.com/forum/discussion/comment/121043#Comment_121043

This is awesome. Saving this immediately.

Buco · April 29

The maintenance of the songs is a tough thing. For me at least. You learn a song, play it for a while. Other things come up, you work on those. Then you forget the stuff you learned previously. And so on...I look at some of my videos on YT or I find a file of something and sometimes I'm like "I played this?!". Yes, the advice I heard a lot is don't move on to something else before you mastered what you're working on right now. But that line is very elusive. And not always practical.

flaco · April 29

https://www.djangobooks.com/forum/discussion/comment/121190#Comment_121190

I’ve been using the Anki app with the list of tunes I’ve been working on for Django in June. It uses the concept of “spaced repetition” to help retain that knowledge. For things you are just in the process of learning it will asks you to play those more frequently, and for things you know pretty well it will have you refresh your memory occasionally.